What Time Is Tipping Point On? ITV1 Slot, ITV Quiz Repeats, ITVX and Lucky Stars
| Where | When (UK) | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| ITV1, weekday teatime | 4pm–5pm, Monday to Friday | Tipping Point's usual hour, shared with Deal or No Deal. Deal or No Deal has it from 28 September 2026; The Chase follows at 5pm either way |
| ITV1, midweek evening | 7.30pm–8pm, Wednesday 30 September, 7 October and 14 October | Tipping Point: Best Ever Finals |
| ITV Quiz | 10am, 11am, midday, 10pm, 11pm and midnight, daily | Series 10 repeats |
| ITV1, weekends | Teatime on some weekend days: 5pm on Saturday 17 October and 4.30pm on Sunday 18 October | Tipping Point: Lucky Stars, when one is booked |
| ITVX | Any time | Older series on demand |
Short version: Tipping Point's ITV1 home is the hour from 4pm, Monday to Friday, but it shares that slot with Deal or No Deal, which has it from Monday 28 September 2026. While it is off the afternoon, repeats run daily on ITV Quiz and older series are on ITVX. Ben Shephard presents, and the celebrity spin-off, Lucky Stars, turns up at weekends rather than in the teatime hour.
What time is Tipping Point on ITV1?
4pm until 5pm on weekdays, when it has the slot. It held that hour up to Friday 25 September 2026. From Monday 28 September ITV's guide lists Deal or No Deal at 16:00 to 17:00 on every weekday it has published, and ITV hasn't said when the two swap back.
Whichever show has it, that hour is the first half of ITV1's teatime double. When it ends, The Chase starts at 5pm and carries the channel to the evening news. Two quizzes, two hours, one sofa.
How long is an episode, and what comes after it?
An hour with adverts, so nearer 45 minutes of actual television. Nothing is stripped across two nights: each episode starts and finishes its own game.
On BBC One the competition starts a quarter of an hour later — Pointless at 5.15pm overlaps The Chase rather than Tipping Point, which is why the 4pm hour has the teatime field largely to itself.
Where can I watch Tipping Point online?
ITVX, free, after broadcast. There is no early-morning drop the way there is for the ITV soaps: the counters have to fall on television first, and the episode appears on the streaming service afterwards.
That matters if you are catching up a week late. ITVX keeps a deep back catalogue of older series, so a run you missed in spring is usually still sitting there next to the current one.
Who presents Tipping Point, and are new episodes still being made?
Ben Shephard has fronted the show since it began in 2012, and he is still the man beside the machine. Yes to new episodes, too: ITV said in June 2026 that the programme would go back into the studio later in the year to record a fresh batch for ITV1 and ITVX, and opened applications for contestants at the same time.
One honest caveat about listings. ITV's published guide does not print series or episode numbers for its teatime quizzes, so a 4pm slot can be a brand-new edition or an archive repeat without the schedule saying which. We only call an episode new when ITV or ITVX labels it that way.
What is Tipping Point: Lucky Stars?
The celebrity edition, in which famous names play for a viewer's charity rather than for themselves. It is a weekend fixture rather than a teatime one — ITV1 drops it into Saturday afternoon, usually around 4.15pm, sandwiched between the racing and a celebrity Chase. The box at the top of this page says whether one is booked this week.
The machine and the rules are the same. The difference is the money's destination and the fact that Lucky Stars appears in bursts, not five days a week.
Why is Tipping Point not on today?
Four usual reasons.
Deal or No Deal has the hour. The two shows trade the 4pm slot for weeks at a time. Deal or No Deal took it on Monday 28 September 2026, and our explainer on the swap tracks when Tipping Point is due back.
It's the weekend. Saturday and Sunday afternoons belong to sport, films and Lucky Stars specials, so the weekday hour simply isn't there.
Racing or football has the afternoon. ITV1's sport blocks can run right up against 4pm. A Friday card can be booked from 1pm to 3.58pm — two minutes of clearance before the quiz.
A midweek match has taken the evening. That tends to hit the 8pm hour hardest; our sister site explains what happens to Emmerdale and Coronation Street when football lands on ITV1. When a whole afternoon goes to sport, the teatime quizzes move or drop out for the day.
What actually aired each day is logged on the weekly results page.
Questions readers ask
Is Tipping Point on at the weekend?
Not the weekday show. Lucky Stars, the celebrity version, does appear on some Saturdays.
Does the episode go on ITVX before it airs?
No. It goes up after broadcast, unlike the ITV soaps, which drop at 7am.
What is on either side of it?
Lingo at 3pm, then The Chase at 5pm.
Where are your other explainers?
Under UK Quiz Guide, with the BBC Two Monday block covered separately. Daily teatime rundowns sit on our Chase page, and week-by-week listings in our schedules.
Is the schedule box above still accurate today?
The box carries the date it was last checked. Tipping Point and Deal or No Deal swap the 4pm hour with little notice, so for a same-day answer check ITV’s own daily guide, linked in Sources below.
Sources
- itv.com TV guide, Thursday 1 October (ITV1 row: Deal or No Deal 16:00–17:00, The Chase 17:00–18:00; ITV Quiz row: Tipping Point at 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 22:00, 23:00 and 00:00; read for each day to 8 October)
- itv.com TV guide, Wednesday 7 October (Tipping Point: Best Ever Finals 19:30)
- itv.com TV guide, Saturday 26 September (Tipping Point: Lucky Stars 16:15, after ITV Racing)
- TV Zone: Tipping Point renewed, returning to the studio for ITV1 and ITVX (11 June 2026)
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